Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 82 (2000) 1, pp. 38-47
California's longstanding requirement that most women receive time-and-a-half pay for workhours beyond eight in one day was extended to men in 1980. Analyzing Current Population Survey data from 1973, 1985, and 1991, we find that this overtime penalty substantially reduced the amount of daily...